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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BEING COERCED INTO GIVING THE CLINTONS AND THEIR NEFARIOUS ASSOCIATES A "GET OUT OF JAIL CARD?"

It now appears that there actually was a Russian attempt to gain influence in highest levels of the United States government and these actions were not only known to top officials in the FBI and Department of Justice, and involved a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, but were never disclosed to key elected oversight officials or the American public.

Unfortunately for the progressive socialist democrats, the people involved were all high-ranking members of the Obama Administration and included:

Attorney General Eric Holder

United States Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who now serves as the Deputy Attorney General.

FBI Director Mueller who now serves as the Special Counsel investigating Russian affairs and possible Trump collusion.

Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe who now serves as the Deputy FBI director.

FBI Director James Comey who apparently covered for Hillary Clinton and the destruction of thousands of government-owned documents.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who became a Presidential Candidate.

Former President Bill Clinton who personally received large speaking fees from Russian-associated firms and whose Foundation received millions in donations from Russian-connected interests.

Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show. They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton.’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [and Eric Holder] served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions. [ OCS:The never-ending investigation is part of a pattern and practice that was widely implemented during the Obama Administration – along with apparent instances of stonewalling, destruction of documents, perjury, and obstruction of justice.]

The first decision occurred in October 2010, when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, giving Moscow control of more than 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.[OCS: This is a big deal involving the national security of the United States and the control of materials that can be used to produce nuclear weaponry.]

When this sale was used by Trump on the campaign trail last year, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman said she was not involved in the committee review and noted the State Department official who handled it said she “never intervened ... on any [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] matter.” That’s when conservative author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal. [OCS: Lying is part and parcel of Hillary Clinton’s modus operandi and few things that she claims are true or have been expertly parsed by an attorney to be inadmissible in a court of law.]

Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was among the Obama administration officials joining Hillary Clinton on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at the time the Uranium One deal was approved. Multiple current and former government officials told The Hill they did not know whether the FBI or DOJ ever alerted committee members to the criminal activity they uncovered.

The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show. [OCS: It is both ironic and tragic that …]Both men now play a key role in the current investigation into possible, but still unproven, collusion between Russia and Donald Trump.

McCabe is under congressional and Justice Department inspector general investigation in connection with money his wife’s Virginia state Senate campaign accepted in 2015 from now-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at a time when McAuliffe was reportedly under investigation by the FBI. The probe is not focused on McAuliffe's conduct but rather on whether McCabe's attendance violated the Hatch Act or other FBI conflict rules.

The connections to the current Russia case are many. The Mikerin probe began in 2009 when Robert Mueller, now the special counsel in charge of the Trump case, was still FBI director. And it ended in late 2015 under the direction of then-FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired earlier this year.

But the Justice Department and FBI took little credit in 2014 when Mikerin, the Russian financier and the trucking firm executives were arrested and charged. The only public statement occurred a year later when the Justice Department put out a little-noticed press release in August 2015, just days before Labor Day. The release noted that the various defendants had reached plea deals. [OCS: Of course there was a “plea deal” because disclosure could severely impact the Obama Presidency and the future Clinton candidacy.]

By that time, the criminal cases against Mikerin had been narrowed to a single charge of money laundering for a scheme that officials admitted stretched from 2004 to 2014. And though agents had evidence of criminal wrongdoing they collected since at least 2009, federal prosecutors only cited in the plea agreement a handful of transactions that occurred in 2011 and 2012, well after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' approval. The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed about the Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia’s nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton’s foundation, sources confirmed to The Hill.

The lack of fanfare left many key players in Washington with no inkling that a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme with serious national security implications had been uncovered.

Ronald Hosko, who served as the assistant FBI director in charge of criminal cases when the investigation was underway, told The Hill he did not recall ever being briefed about Mikerin’s case by the counterintelligence side of the bureau despite the criminal charges that were being lodged. “I had no idea this case was being conducted,” a surprised Hosko said in an interview.

Likewise, major congressional figures were also kept in the dark. Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told The Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal.

“Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,” he said. “The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.”

We all know that President Donald Trump “talks tough,” but now we are about to see if he has the cojones to “walk the walk, after talking the talk.” It appears that he has sufficient evidence – backed by court documents – to suspend all of the Department of Justice and FBI players, including the Special Counsel – and appoint another special counsel to investigate the entire issue of Russian collusion.

If President Trump fails to take action, the American people will have proof positive that he is not only a progressive member of the establishment, but is also in cahoots with the Obamacons, Clintonistas, and other bureaucratic evildoers.

We are so screwed.

-- steve

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

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IS IT POSSIBLE THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BEING COERCED INTO GIVING THE CLINTONS AND THEIR NEFARIOUS ASSOCIATES A "GET OUT OF JAIL CARD?"

It now appears that there actually was a Russian attempt to gain influence in highest levels of the United States government and these actions were not only known to top officials in the FBI and Department of Justice, and involved a candidate for the Presidency of the United States, but were never disclosed to key elected oversight officials or the American public.

Unfortunately for the progressive socialist democrats, the people involved were all high-ranking members of the Obama Administration and included:

Attorney General Eric Holder

United States Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who now serves as the Deputy Attorney General.

FBI Director Mueller who now serves as the Special Counsel investigating Russian affairs and possible Trump collusion.

Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe who now serves as the Deputy FBI director.

FBI Director James Comey who apparently covered for Hillary Clinton and the destruction of thousands of government-owned documents.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who became a Presidential Candidate.

Former President Bill Clinton who personally received large speaking fees from Russian-associated firms and whose Foundation received millions in donations from Russian-connected interests.

Before the Obama administration approved a controversial deal in 2010 giving Moscow control of a large swath of American uranium, the FBI had gathered substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States, according to government documents and interviews.

Federal agents used a confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry to gather extensive financial records, make secret recordings and intercept emails as early as 2009 that showed Moscow had compromised an American uranium trucking firm with bribes and kickbacks in violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, FBI and court documents show. They also obtained an eyewitness account — backed by documents — indicating Russian nuclear officials had routed millions of dollars to the U.S. designed to benefit former President Bill Clinton.’s charitable foundation during the time Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [and Eric Holder] served on a government body that provided a favorable decision to Moscow, sources told The Hill.

Rather than bring immediate charges in 2010, however, the Department of Justice (DOJ) continued investigating the matter for nearly four more years, essentially leaving the American public and Congress in the dark about Russian nuclear corruption on U.S. soil during a period when the Obama administration made two major decisions benefiting Putin’s commercial nuclear ambitions. [ OCS:The never-ending investigation is part of a pattern and practice that was widely implemented during the Obama Administration – along with apparent instances of stonewalling, destruction of documents, perjury, and obstruction of justice.]

The first decision occurred in October 2010, when the State Department and government agencies on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States unanimously approved the partial sale of Canadian mining company Uranium One to the Russian nuclear giant Rosatom, giving Moscow control of more than 20 percent of America’s uranium supply.[OCS: This is a big deal involving the national security of the United States and the control of materials that can be used to produce nuclear weaponry.]

When this sale was used by Trump on the campaign trail last year, Hillary Clinton’s spokesman said she was not involved in the committee review and noted the State Department official who handled it said she “never intervened ... on any [Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States] matter.” That’s when conservative author Peter Schweitzer and The New York Times documented how Bill Clinton collected hundreds of thousands of dollars in Russian speaking fees and his charitable foundation collected millions in donations from parties interested in the deal while Hillary Clinton presided on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States.

The Obama administration and the Clintons defended their actions at the time, insisting there was no evidence that any Russians or donors engaged in wrongdoing and there was no national security reason for any member of the committee to oppose the Uranium One deal. [OCS: Lying is part and parcel of Hillary Clinton’s modus operandi and few things that she claims are true or have been expertly parsed by an attorney to be inadmissible in a court of law.]

Then-Attorney General Eric Holder was among the Obama administration officials joining Hillary Clinton on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States at the time the Uranium One deal was approved. Multiple current and former government officials told The Hill they did not know whether the FBI or DOJ ever alerted committee members to the criminal activity they uncovered.

The investigation was ultimately supervised by then-U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, an Obama appointee who now serves as President Trump’s deputy attorney general, and then-Assistant FBI Director Andrew McCabe, now the deputy FBI director under Trump, Justice Department documents show. [OCS: It is both ironic and tragic that …]Both men now play a key role in the current investigation into possible, but still unproven, collusion between Russia and Donald Trump.

McCabe is under congressional and Justice Department inspector general investigation in connection with money his wife’s Virginia state Senate campaign accepted in 2015 from now-Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe at a time when McAuliffe was reportedly under investigation by the FBI. The probe is not focused on McAuliffe's conduct but rather on whether McCabe's attendance violated the Hatch Act or other FBI conflict rules.

The connections to the current Russia case are many. The Mikerin probe began in 2009 when Robert Mueller, now the special counsel in charge of the Trump case, was still FBI director. And it ended in late 2015 under the direction of then-FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired earlier this year.

But the Justice Department and FBI took little credit in 2014 when Mikerin, the Russian financier and the trucking firm executives were arrested and charged. The only public statement occurred a year later when the Justice Department put out a little-noticed press release in August 2015, just days before Labor Day. The release noted that the various defendants had reached plea deals. [OCS: Of course there was a “plea deal” because disclosure could severely impact the Obama Presidency and the future Clinton candidacy.]

By that time, the criminal cases against Mikerin had been narrowed to a single charge of money laundering for a scheme that officials admitted stretched from 2004 to 2014. And though agents had evidence of criminal wrongdoing they collected since at least 2009, federal prosecutors only cited in the plea agreement a handful of transactions that occurred in 2011 and 2012, well after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States' approval. The final court case also made no mention of any connection to the influence peddling conversations the FBI undercover informant witnessed about the Russian nuclear officials trying to ingratiate themselves with the Clintons even though agents had gathered documents showing the transmission of millions of dollars from Russia’s nuclear industry to an American entity that had provided assistance to Bill Clinton’s foundation, sources confirmed to The Hill.

The lack of fanfare left many key players in Washington with no inkling that a major Russian nuclear corruption scheme with serious national security implications had been uncovered.

Ronald Hosko, who served as the assistant FBI director in charge of criminal cases when the investigation was underway, told The Hill he did not recall ever being briefed about Mikerin’s case by the counterintelligence side of the bureau despite the criminal charges that were being lodged. “I had no idea this case was being conducted,” a surprised Hosko said in an interview.

Likewise, major congressional figures were also kept in the dark. Former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), who chaired the House Intelligence Committee during the time the FBI probe was being conducted, told The Hill that he had never been told anything about the Russian nuclear corruption case even though many fellow lawmakers had serious concerns about the Obama administration’s approval of the Uranium One deal.

“Not providing information on a corruption scheme before the Russian uranium deal was approved by U.S. regulators and engage appropriate congressional committees has served to undermine U.S. national security interests by the very people charged with protecting them,” he said. “The Russian efforts to manipulate our American political enterprise is breathtaking.”

We all know that President Donald Trump “talks tough,” but now we are about to see if he has the cojones to “walk the walk, after talking the talk.” It appears that he has sufficient evidence – backed by court documents – to suspend all of the Department of Justice and FBI players, including the Special Counsel – and appoint another special counsel to investigate the entire issue of Russian collusion.

If President Trump fails to take action, the American people will have proof positive that he is not only a progressive member of the establishment, but is also in cahoots with the Obamacons, Clintonistas, and other bureaucratic evildoers.